This is the time of year when leadership teams come together to prepare for the future. Recently, I supported two different groups—one from government…

In Theory U: Leading from the Future As It Emerges (SoL, 2007), C. Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, takes…

This year, my nine-year-old daughter has been studying inventions and inventors, and I’ve been learning about them through her. She particularly likes the stories…

Of all the system structures that affect our lives and world, escalation takes the prize for its negative impact. In situations such as price…

In my recent feature article, “Extending Systems Thinking to Social Systems” (Volume 18 Number 5), I presented the systemic law known as “structural determinism,”…

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited is the second-largest marketing and oil refining company in India, with more than 11,000 employees, an annual turnover of more…

Acompanion to the PBS documentary, “Good News . . . How Hospitals Heal Themselves,” The Nun and the Bureaucrat: How They Found an…

How do you measure the value of servant leadership in business? How can we know it works? These have been two of the most…

I frequently talk to groups of managers on the nature of systems thinking and its radical implications to management. In doing so, I use…

When was the last time you were in a meeting and someone said, “Stop thinking so much!” or “I don’t want you to come…